Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrangements were made for her to go to a home specialising in care for people who were motivated to look after themselves , and the staff were prepared to cope with the deafness . |
| 2 | While the leadership of the IFL was evidently opposed to Mosley , they were prepared to co-operate with the rank and file of his organization . |
| 3 | It was a pity that none of the Scandinavian allies were willing to co-operate with the scheme . |
| 4 | He said South Africa 's security forces were unable to deal with the violence , adding : ‘ We are calling for the formation of an internal peace force … the only qualification should be that the peace force be composed of people who are committed to democracy in this country . ’ |
| 5 | But the climate changed about 65 million years ago ( perhaps exacerbated by a bombardment of meteors ) and the dinosaurs , for reasons that are still unexplained , were unable to cope with the shift . |
| 6 | When , in April 1916 , the assistant matron , Miss Loader , and the children 's attendant , Miss Thomas , resigned on the grounds that they were unable to work with the matron , and when Mrs. Adams , the labour mistress , also appeared before the committee with a similar complaint , it was evident that all was not well . |
| 7 | We were unable to meet with the Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation , Manal Younis , as at the time she was on a ship bound for Iraq with a cargo of medicines and milk . |
| 8 | On this issue Lansbury and the pacifist element in the Party were unable to compromise with the rest of the party . |
| 9 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |
| 10 | They were able to deal with the problem because they discovered a stream running through an eighteenth-century tunnel next door . |
| 11 | They were able to communicate with the part of us that longs to grow and expand into the world . |
| 12 | Intellectual stimulation was not easy , but the care manager came up with a group of volunteers , all of them computer buffs , who were able to communicate with the man on his level . |
| 13 | The plane was due to connect with the hydrofoil service to Malta which is used by British oil workers . |
| 14 | ‘ Rome-you 're welcome to it as far as I 'm concerned , ’ said Mervyn spitefully , the day before Ianthe was due to leave with the party from St Basil 's . |
| 15 | ‘ The doctrine preached by Weismann was that to start with a body and enquire how its characters got into the germ was to view the sequence from the wrong end : the proper starting point is the germ . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the Court was at pains to say that in a world of partial harmonisation the employee was free to agree with the transferee any changes he might have agreed with the transferor ( point 16 ) |
| 17 | Although the government indicated that it was prepared to negotiate with the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia , it said that it had not renounced the use of force . |
| 18 | There was , as they say , no answer to that — or at least none that I was prepared to touch with a barge-pole . |
| 19 | It was interesting to talk with a family who belonged to this high priest 's group and hear their side of the story . |
| 20 | By late June , however , close political aides of the PPP leader Benazir Bhutto were quoted as saying that the party was willing to co-operate with the army in putting an end to a " reign of terror " by its political rival , the Sind-based Mohajir Qaumi Mahaz ( MQM ) . |
| 21 | It was impossible to continue with the meeting and difficult to tell where the next outburst might come from . |
| 22 | It was hard to sleep with the image of the prowling packs on their trail . |
| 23 | The leading layman of the York diocese was the politician whose judgement was likely to weigh with the Crown : Lord Halifax , the former Foreign Secretary , and a devout Anglo-Catholic . |
| 24 | The tales were lively , not without a strong hint of bawdiness , but they had brought vividly to life the glittering courts of former days — so different , as Alianor was wont to say with a sigh , from the subdued , uneasy court of the present king . |
| 25 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 26 | When Mr Major ran for party leader , the terrier-like figure of Mrs Shephard joined his campaign team early on , rounded up his support and delivered him a victory which he was swift to reward with the post of Minister of State in the Treasury . |
| 27 | While grudgingly accepting Mr Rosen 's line that there were some good teachers who did teach properly , he was quick to counter with the challenge that ‘ we could n't be sure that it was happening elsewhere ’ . |
| 28 | And it was all to do with the sewage ? |
| 29 | Piphros ' vocabulary was indeed limited and was unable to cope with the complexity of some of the things she had asked . |
| 30 | Initially it seemed quite exciting to her , but she quickly realised that she was unable to care with the intensity felt by the other members of the group . |